Comments on: Privacy Mirror: A privacy experiment in Facebook

By: I “like” you, but I hate your apps – Part 1: The nature of relationships

Fri, 14 Jan 2011 15:22:21 +0000

[...] ACLU’s and my own research into Facebook has shown how your apps can easily access information about your friends [...]

By: Social Media Security » The Limits of Application Privacy Limits

Social Media Security » The Limits of Application Privacy Limits — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 01:30:43 +0000

[...] session. I and others have had to sort through some confusion on this topic, and I appreciate recent work by Ian Glazer to clear things up. As you can see from my comments on Glazer’s second post [...]

By: The Limits of Application Privacy Limits | Social Hacking

The Limits of Application Privacy Limits | Social Hacking — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:03:22 +0000

By: Joel Goguen (jgoguen) 's status on Friday, 24-Jul-09 11:32:09 UTC - Identi.ca

Joel Goguen (jgoguen) 's status on Friday, 24-Jul-09 11:32:09 UTC - Identi.ca — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 11:32:17 +0000

[...] http://www.tuesdaynight.org/2009/07/22/privacy-mirror-a-privacy-experiment-in-facebook.html [...]

By: Ian Glazer

Ian Glazer — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:23:47 +0000

Yes – it seems like that statement is accurate.

By: Ian Glazer’s Privacy Mirror experiment in Facebook « The Technology Side of GRC

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:18:14 +0000

[...] Canada’s Assistant Privacy Commissioner Elizabeth Denham released a report on privacy concerns against Facebook recently. This report was covered by many reporters and bloggers, so I won’t attempt to summarize it again. You can always follow the link to read more. Ian Glazer, an analyst from Burton Group covering privacy has done an interesting experiment on Facebook testing out these concerns using a custom application. The findings are not surprising, but still interesting. You can find Ian’s blog here: tuesdaynight [...]

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:29:32 +0000

Is this an accurate statement: “If a Facebook friend authorizes a 3rd party apps to see their data, that app can also see everything that you share with that friend.”?

If so, this is troubling. It is one thing for me to explicitly grant a 3rd party app access to my profile data, but it is quite another for me to be sharing with every app every one of my friends authorize.

I do not want my friends to have the ability to share my profile data with 3rd party apps that I have not specifically authorized myself.